Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gifford's great value has been his ability to work in perfect harmony with stroke Louis McCagg. This pair and another from last year's freshman boat, Jim Slocum and Steve Hedberg, have formed a foursome which, working together in the stern of the beat, has been a valuable asset to the varsity this year...
Editor Fritchey promptly reprinted the editorial on Page One, along with an editorial signed by Publisher David ("Tommy") Stern, and headlined: THE ISSUE-FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. Wrote Stern: "If this newspaper believes the State Senate ... is not acting in the best interest of the public, it is not only our right but our duty to say so." Then Fritchey and Stern, responding to a summons from a sergeant-at-arms, appeared before a Senate committee to answer for the Item's outspoken words...
...rights of a free press. They refused to retreat one whit. In the face of the Item's firm stand, plus editorials in other newspapers unanimously rebuking the legislators for their attitude, the committee backed down, voted to forget about prosecution of Editor Fritchey and Publisher Stern. The most disappointed man in the committee room was undoubtedly Senator A. O. Rappelet. Legislative Clown Rappelet had brought along a huge balloon, a ball and four plastic fish, but the chairman never gave him the floor or the chance to put on his trained-seal...
...record gross of $49.2 million and a net of $4.1 million to Hilton's $42 million gross and $3.9 million net. (Hilton's Waldorf has since put him ahead.) Art Douglas still sees to it that Statler-men do not forget old Ellsworth's stern rule: "No employee of this hotel is allowed the privilege of arguing any point with a guest...
...stern exception to this easygoing rule is 70-year-old Mrs. Waka Yamada, who looks on concubines in about the way that Carry Nation looked on saloonkeepers. Sometimes admitted to the courts as a "special attorney," Mrs. Yamada argues her cause eloquently. Last January she won a precedent-shattering acquittal for a wife who admitted having murdered her husband's concubine...